Basic Historical Method: How Search History Informations and write Historical Written?

 

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Today, we will discuss about basic historical method  for write historical writing  according Historian Louis Gottschalk. It is important method for search Islamic History s informations. Ok, please read this article until end and subscribe my blog for more informations about Islamic History and Civilization. It is easy verb for you, but give us support for educate people about  Islamic History and Civilization. And, dont forget, please read this article until end for get complete informations about this topic.

First, specify topic. For make written about history, book or journal or article, you must specify topic. Specify you topic that want you research. You can choose whatever that you research. Example, you want researched about Umayyad Caliphate, Abbasid Caliphate, and other topic. It is first step for write history.

Second, collect sources. You can collect primary and secondary sources. Primary sources , is sources that written contemporary with historical event and secondary sources, is source that written dont by eyewitness or writtendont contemporary with historical moment. Primary sources can be book, archive, video, or other that contemporaries from historical event that you research. Secondary sources can quoted from match book about your historical topics. That written by modern historian. But, if original primary sources hard to get, according Louis Gottschalk, we can quoted from primary sources s citations at secondary sources.

Example, you research about History Of Ottoman Empire. Many primary sources written by Turkish Language and you cannot speak with this language. You can used Ottoman History Book with language that you understand , that quoted from primary sources.

Third, internal and external critics. External critics , for specify document s originality and internal citics , for specify s document s credibility. This step, is criticize sources that we get at before step. Criticize is this source credible and other. Included criticize about document s oisinality and writter s credibility.  Example, for document, you can seeing the paper that used by write this document. If paper for document s match with paper at age of historical moment that you research?

Fourth, corroborration or interpretation. You must interpretate histoical narration that you get from several sources  for reconstructed historical moments.  

Fifth, historiography. You write historical written from historical datas that you get at before process. At this process, you make tried to write interest historical written with strong datas, interest language, and structure written.

It is several step for make historical written. And, this step can you practic at your historical research. Good luck”!

Refrences:

Gottschalk, Louis: Mengerti Sejarah, UI Press, 1986 M.